Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) identifies highly connected individuals, teams and departments as well as where bottlenecks and collaboration breakdowns occur. Learn how ONA can be used to understand how your organization collaborates and identify new pathways to achieve their business goals.

Network Managers have a tall order in IT organizations today. Typically, they are tasked with two conflicting business directives:

1. Deliver optimal end-user experience for networked applications

2. Reduce the operational cost of the network, or reduce the IT budget

But the knee jerk approach of “throwing bandwidth at the problem” while potentially improving end user experience, is hardly the answer to cost management and network optimization.

In this webinar, Chris Greer will discuss the challenges that result from the common approaches utilized today in capacity planning and, outline a new way, comprised of 4 actionable steps to optimizing the bandwidth you may already have.

Join us this week for a special 30-minute live session on how RingCentral integrates with Zendesk for improved workflow and increased productivity.

Tune in every Friday for RingCentral Live. We’ll tour the RingCentral interface, discuss the latest innovations and features available on the RingCentral platform, and share best practices on leveraging cloud communications for your business. This session also features a live demo of RingCentral Office and an open Q&A session led by a Sales Engineer.

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, transformed their medical information contact centers to deliver a faster, more seamless customer experience. Join this webinar to learn how using the Salesforce Service Cloud and Knowledge allows Janssen to:

-Successfully manage a medical information solution across the pharmaceutical and medical device sectors of Johnson & Johnson
-Increase agent productivity by automating 99% of processes for the medical device center
-Improve agility and innovate on top of the Salesforce platform
-Respond to customers 25% faster on their medical information requests

We are voice specialists. We provide business phone products and services to support voice, but our cloud-based phone system is at the heart of what we do. Easy to install and easy to use, our cloud phone system is available wherever you are.

Private cloud deployments are going mainstream. The problem is that VM visibility and DNS, DHCP, and IP address management automation are still a huge challenge that can cause delays, manual work, and errors. Those days are over. Watch this webinar and learn how you can be enabled to put your private cloud networking on auto-pilot. See the next generation of network automation for cloud and virtual environments to help simplify your private cloud deployment.

The New IP is the next dimension in networking. In this webcast, Simon Williams from Brocade and Clive Atkins from Redcentric discuss how the new IP will put customers in control of their own networks allowing them to evolve their networks on their time, their terms.

With Microsoft Lync - soon to be Skype for Business - predicted to become a top-three global telephony provider by 2016 (Gartner), it is no surprise many organizations are either deploying, or evaluating a deployment, of Skype for Business. But how do you measure the success of such an initiative?

In this exclusive presentation Eric Bauer, Global Product Director UC, will be joined by John Hand, a former Microsoft employee of 25+ years who is now IR’s Global Microsoft Alliance Director, to detail the 4 Measures for Success in a Lync/Skype for Business deployment.

There are many decisions when choosing a video conferencing solution. Free versus subscription? Cloud solution or not? What type of video system is best suited for your meeting rooms? Join Michael Helmbrecht, VP of Product Marketing, in this webinar where he will breakdown the top five considerations of video conferencing for 2015. Michael will also elaborate on the competitive landscape and which solutions best fit your company’s needs.

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The continued growth of the business networks that employees, partners and customers use to share information is driving the need for collaboration tools that are available beyond firewalls, on any device. With the cloud emerging as the preferred place for these technologies, and a crowded landscape of potential vendors, how can your organization make the right choice?

- The emerging types of cloud collaboration technologies and the key considerations to think through
- The inherent value in having a collaboration platform that connects people to information
- How to align the organizational need to collaborate while keeping information secure at every touchpoint

The continued growth of the business networks that employees, partners and customers use to share information is driving the need for collaboration tools that are available beyond firewalls, on any device. With the cloud emerging as the preferred place for these technologies, and a crowded landscape of potential vendors, how can your organization make the right choice?

- The emerging types of cloud collaboration technologies and the key considerations to think through
- The inherent value in having a collaboration platform that connects people to information
- How to align the organizational need to collaborate while keeping information secure at every touchpoint

Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) identifies highly connected individuals, teams and departments as well as where bottlenecks and collaboration breakdowns occur. Learn how ONA can be used to understand how your organization collaborates and identify new pathways to achieve their business goals.

How can you maximize your return on investment in video collaboration technologies? From soft clients through room based and immersive systems, Cisco’s Collaboration Change Management Practice will help you to understand “What to use, How to use, When to use and Where to use your video collaboration technologies” to drive business results via a structured approach that will enable your employees to succeed in today’s ultra-competitive world.

Companies are implementing solutions to improve employee productivity and to facilitate collaboration between and among their teams, partners, customers and suppliers across the globe. This webinar will share Cisco Best Practices to increase end-user adoption of collaboration technologies to achieve the expected business benefits and ROI.